Kumble disappoints on day of high drama It was a day on which everything other than the much-awaited happened. Local lad Anil Kumble, stuck on 299 Test wickets, could not scalp the solitary wicket that he needed to reach an important milestone. The crowd at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore egged on the leggie as much as they could but went home disappointed. The day, however, was anything but uneventful. On winning the toss, Nasser Hussain elected to bat, and England were going well until Marcus Trescothick (8) was removed by Javagal Srinath. Mark Butcher (27) then needlessly ran himself out with the score on 68. Srinath struck again after lunch, removing Hussain (43). From that point on, Michael Vaughan (64) and Mark Ramprakash (58) put together a doughty 113-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Completely against the grain of play, Vaughan was out handling the ball when he plucked at the cherry just after it rebounded off his pads. Soon after, England lost two quick wickets to Sarandeep Singh (2/45), with Andrew Flintoff (0) continuing a dreadful run with the bat. At the end of the day, though, England will not be too disappointed with 255/6.

Vaughan: Probably it is against the spirit of the game Michael Vaughan did something at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore that he will never attempt again in his life. The stylish batsman was on 64 and looking good for a big score when he was given out handling the ball. Vaughan left the ground rather reluctantly, completely bemused about what had happened. Later in the evening, Vaughan talked to the media about his dismissal. "It was only a natural thing to do. I went for the sweep shot, the ball got lodged between my arm and my pads, and there was no way that ball was going to hit the stumps. I just thought it was the right thing to do to help the short-leg fielder, and I flicked the ball to him," said Vaughan. "I understand that, in the laws of the game, it is out. I am a bit disappointed that somebody in the team appealed, and obviously the umpire had to give me out," he said. Vaughan clarified his stance further. "It was lodged between my arm and the pad first. The ball was only going one way, and that was forward. I was just a bit bemused by the whole situation and didn't quite know what to do. Obviously, as soon as the umpire puts his finger up, you got to go." Vaughan insisted that he just wanted to get on with the game, and that he was disappointed that the Indian team had appealed, leaving no option for the umpire but to give him out. When he was persistently asked whether the Indians appealing for the wicket was against the spirit of the game, Vaughan said, "probably it is against the spirit of the game."

A morose Jumbo Anil Kumble was a disappointed man at the end of the first day's play. Having returned figures of 22-5-59-0, the Karnataka leggie failed to live up to expectations. The crowd of about 10,000 gathered at the M Chinnaswamy stadium cheered every time that Kumble came in to bowl, yet every spell ended in anticlimax. If anyone was more disappointed than Anil, however, it was Radhakrishna and Saroja, better known as Mr and Mrs Kumble - the leg-spinner's parents. Seated in the stands, While Anil's father filmed every ball that his son bowled on a handycam, hoping to capture the magic moment for posterity, his mother was repeatedly captured by television cameras looking anxious, as was famously done in a limited-overs match against Australia years ago. Alas, it was not to be, and they must now return on the second day to try once more!

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